well violence in mali as a militant group launches guerrilla attacks on the previously liberated city and made claims by the french ministry that the operation is almost complete. a lift to kong rationally board leaves e.u. was missile shield in europe defenseless and with the claims the system may fail to protect major and could be aimed against russia. braces for yet another string of anti-government rallies on the two year anniversary of former dictator hosni mubarak's ouster. here in the russian capital you're watching our do you with me to bomb would say

it's good to have you with us this morning. and islamists a rebel group is claiming responsibility for ongoing violence in models in northern city of death after gunmen launched a surprise guerrilla attack earlier the city was rocked by two suicide bombings however france maintains a military campaign in mali to force out a slight islamist is almost complete local correspondent gonzalo wants reports. the situation in mali is obviously going to have a gruesome ending there are more than enough indications of that last friday the country was shaken by the very first terrorist attack in its history according to the witness report of what was carried out by a fifteen year old suicide bomber of arab descent the bomber was the only one killed after the detonation of a few hours later responsibility for the attack was claimed by the most of the how this one thing to remember here is that this is a bass desert territory and therefore it is very difficult to control this attack

is just another example confirming that despite the news reports of the french army having taken over gal timbuktu into doubt there is still a long way to go before jihadists or i was did from the country in severe artie's crew was given access to the civil defense camps where volunteers and civilians are preparing to fight against the jihadists the f.l.n. they and again the core a local pro-government militia movements that account for a total of two thousand eight hundred operatives but do not support the strategy chosen by the french in mali and joined forces in fighting the terrorists. we share the same goals but what they did was a really bad service to us there was no really about the army itself al qaeda had been operating on mali and territory for a number of years now they have all means and they keep getting more by kidnapping white people for ransom drones pays them to have their citizens returned and then the terrorists have cash to buy weapons if we talk about al qaeda there's no way

the army can fight it because that sheer terrorism in action. those paramilitary who know the terrain well say fighting a war they cannot take part in is meaningless one thing all these paramilitary groups have in common is their patriotism and zeal to protect their country and drive away the narco terrorists but this is a losing fight given the financial resources and ammunition stock they have. i am ready to go it all lengths i'm raised to give my life right now to save my family up there in the north because we're all here have families i believe france will stop these attacks for a while or and the french troops leave they will start all over again because the criminals are still out there hiding him on the civilians and all of them have been caught really need to be given the mandate to complete this mission our own we're ready for it all and we can do it because we grew up in the north we know that uranium the people so we're the only ones who can stop them and find them in the villages and the desert where we know every corner and every parts of land. over

all while the jihadists forces are taking over their land kidnapping people and using suicide bombers to fight for their cause the civilian population remains the country's most vulnerable group early artie's ganesh if you can speak to russia's ambassador to the un vitaly churkin about the possible reasons for the ongoing mali and conflict the full interview is on a at six forty five pm at g.m.t. or you can watch it on our web site at www dot com but here's a quick a sneak peek. oh it's a question of spring was the dramatic events in libya. we're in the course of the crisis of course lots of weapons were brought into libya and there was a lot of there were lots of weapons of as it is but still many more weapons were brought into libya during the recent hearings which then secretary of state clinton had in the house of representatives one of the congressman said that they had

information that cut out with a wink and nod as he put it from the united states brought in twenty thousand tons of weapons into libya and you know twenty thousand tons you can arm a small terrorist army and so on of course this is exactly what has happened in mali definitely we see a spillover from the libyan crisis to to a neighboring country and most likely if the spillover has affected other places as well for instance it may well be there are many indications to that effect that the terrorist attack in the in the in the jury had something to do i mean close to the libyan border also had some sort of libyan connection in terms of people maybe weapons there or emanating from libya participating in that attack. the u.s. defense shield in europe is under further scrutiny after

a need congressional report revealed the system may be unfit for its declared purpose the study claims the shield may not be able to protect america and its allies from any iranian missile strike the report also acknowledges the moscow's concerns that the u.s. system undermines a russia's nuclear deterrent all over the missile she has a strained relations between the two countries as washington uses to give moscow legally binding guarantees the system is not a against russia president obama had promised to be quote more flexible on board on the subject up to his reelection but some observers doubt that the u.s. will give up on its do a political ambitions. i don't think it was ever intended to protect against iranian missiles something in fact that do not even exist today iran has no nuclear weapons nor do they have the capability to launch a missile all the way to the united states clearly this missile defense system has

always been about surrounding russia and china and that's why it doesn't the math doesn't work when you look at having it protect against an iranian system fact as nato is expanding in its encircled russia i think we're only going to see more of these so called again missile defense deployments into various nato countries looking at how this oligarchies runs our country today how the corporations control our congress i think it's clear that congress will continue to support these systems the new secretary of defense that obama is nominated chuck hagel former republican senator from nebraska was one of the co-sponsors in the senate of the missile defense program so he clearly is a strong ally of the system. still to come battling to save lives

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welcome back you're watching our team in the latest development of a political crisis in tunisia the president's party has threatened. coalition government the moves expected to become later on monday it comes after days of violent protests and response to the assassination of a prominent opposition figure was on the country's islamist rule as. is in the

capital tunis with more. forty eight year old lawyer shockley belied criticize the islamist government for creating a religious state in tunisia and burying democracy now belied is dead but his ideas and not. the country has been in crisis economic political and social the ruling troika had a chance it's been a year and a half but we didn't see any progress the death of our com rate becomes the last rule. and moved to the streets with protesters demanding the authorities and mabel to protect its citizens to leave. the city with. some crying because believe was a symbol of dignity and a symbol of the defense of the country to see that this is a political assassination and that means the violence is not over the political short people can use yet the interior ministry said that one million in the have

joined the ceremony that turned into a political and if the station people said that if the crowd reached the city center it would have been the last day of the government. as your attend the funeral of shockey belayed on friday after the seventy try to make their way to the city is made and yet to continue antigovernment protests that they were not allowed to do that police used tear gas immediately in such a day such a siege is packed with people with slogans we're hearing are completely different was carrying islamist flags people masterly in support of the ruling and not a party the local branch of the muslim brotherhood police were at the scene to protest and demonstrators this time this reverse gathering didn't do more than five thousand participants but the government used this to illustrate that's their position was still strong. men did approve the people support and believe our party

needs all of our revenue and they try to say face but don't have the choice they lost credibility and have no choice but to dissolve the government which is by de facto dissolved already. standing on the brink of a political crisis prime minister proposed to form a new cabinet consisting of neutral politicians his own party rejected the plan and christenings idea of a possible farthest plate and fears and growing the political divisions may lead to even more victims or was threaten to another guy from the opposition was attacked at the funerals i want to panic and say x.y.z. that person but there is a list of people those who fight for the revolutions principles liberty democracy dignity we're all in danger two years ago tunisia became the first nation to have an arab spring revolution that has been hailed as a success story praised for the minimum of violence and turmoil but as we watch the

country face a political implosion it may be only now that this crane that has been wound up tightly it's been sprung for three days clashes between police and protesters shook the country leaving many injured and cars burnt out across the city but it all finished as quickly as it started just hours later the capital looks empty and come and the loudest noise here at the moment is sound of birds twittering. narration ocean r.t. g.'s yeah. in egypt more than a dozen political parties and business are promising to bring their supporters to the streets on the day marking two years since of the ousting of former president hosni mubarak monday's rallies which will include a march on presidential palace are intended to increase the pressure on the country's new leader mohamed morsi is a slam has led government interest of repressive measures after last week's decision to shut down the video sharing website. and to regime protests have passed

and led to bloodshed in the captain and elsewhere in egypt spokesman for the opposition the aftermath how our research people are so disillusioned with the government you no longer need to be called to protest. people are going to go into the streets they are going on the streets willingly they don't really need any opposition calls for due process because the whole country is in a standstill there's nothing moving forward because there is no real administration at pressing the people needs and the people demand the actual anger in the streets so the only solution that i can see and that every sane person can see that the opposition the brotherhood and all the different political factions to be in a quality of government that would be the only solution and the only way out because at that moment this government will take responsibility for any reform that's going to be as one of the happening of the country but the idea of just

excluding everybody out of the government post revolution country in a country that's acting or calling for democracy where there is no real parliament in session that can hold the president or the government accountable to the failures of administering the country and then refusing to have a quality of government that's just a call for chaos so was a drain in the way the experts blaming a combination of issues including personal debt and cutbacks to the mental health budget a problem that is prompting calls for greater government action. reports. for the last year and a half and thorne has been coming to terms with the tragic death of her son aged just twenty three toby took his own life writing his spinal words on the back of a bank statement after racking up a three thousand pound overdraft and a five thousand pounds student debt it was just the shock it wasn't from one that had a history of depression or mental illness or even had come across as being down or

depressed. you know in the last few weeks months of his life if anything he came across as someone you know didn't have a care in the world following his death and became a trustee for the charity piracy which aims to prevent suicide among young people from a home in cornwall she even runs her own blog giving advice but it's a battle her charity and similar ones around the u.k. are struggling to win suicide is on the increase according to latest figures accounting for six thousand deaths between twenty ten and twenty eleven a rise of seven percent so why the increase while an inquest ruled that toby's financial problems were a contributing factor to his suicide experts nice a bit amazing u.k. economy is partly to blame for the recent surge in deaths nationwide areas of high unemployment such as camden here in london are among those worst affected and it's a problem compounded by cutbacks in mental health services the double whammy effect

of the recession is that the people are becoming more distressed more anxious and therefore more at risk of wanting to take their own lives at the same time whether sterrett in cuts means that we have fewer psychiatric beds that the crisis isn't there and if that isn't enough the growth of same day loan companies and intimidating debt collectors are adding to the pressures people are feeling according to researchers brighton university we have some very very good regulations that protect people look at things like that debt collection however it appears that it's equally well it's because these practices do it in response the u.k. government has announced plans to crack down on aggressive bailiff's from next year late night visits will not be allowed and restrictions will be put on what property can be seized they are also spending over a million pounds on research as part of

a suicide strategy plan. but that is only one very small step in the right direction for someone like him it's not easy at all i mean one thing i've learned more about through thought than i ever wanted to know but i've done a lot of reading and research and it's strangely complex hopefully intolerantly the trend will go down with what we need to be. andrew farmer from london check out our website for other stories from around the world here's a taste for you what's happening the regular safety drill on a fancy cruise line i went terribly wrong when a lifeboat fell into the sea killing five people got the details are to dot com. and french police arrest a pair of identical twins but have no other option but to turn to an expensive d.n.a. test revealed watch one of them committed and allege

a string of sexual assaults find out why and how much needs to be fucked out online . ukraine is trying to break free from dependence on russian gas this has led authorities to search for western companies interested in exploring its shale gas reserves however news that hasn't gone down well with the country's environmentalist as r.t. is the less serious esky reports. it was described as the day of ukraine's energy independence when in november last year a key have signed a one billion dollar agreement with a spanish utility to build a liquefied natural gas terminal on the black sea coast delights quickly turned into dismay when it emerged that the man signing the deal had nothing to do with the company three months later ukraine's leaders were shaking hands again this time with boiled dutch shell having signed a real deal to explore and develop the country's potentially he would shale gas

reserves reportedly the third largest in europe. the expectation is about eight to ten billion cubic meters of gas production per year and the highest is up to about twenty two twenty five once it's operational we will strive to fully meet our domestic energy needs and to even become an exporter. this is definitely sweet music to keep for years ukraine has been striving to reduce its relies on imports from russia especially now when gas. was seven billion dollars for violating gas agreements this project is definitely good we would pay between one hundred fifty to one hundred eighty dollars per cubic meter of gas instead of the four hundred fifty dollars we're now paying to gasp but if everything is so promising why are people out in force against the shale gas initiative will be the second sure noble if not worse for years ukraine has often been divided on many

different issues from perception of history to the official number of state languages and then you shale gas initiatives are no exception even sworn political enemies hardline nationalists and communists have put their differences aside and spoken out against. the opposition even proposed a bill prohibiting the exploration and extraction of shale gas with. information on how the gas split between shell chevron and ukrainian companies is classified and it is still not clear if it's going to be profitable plus the companies don't keer all harmful it will be to the environment but political battles of ecologists are the most concerned with a potential threat from the shale gas program they insist it could lead to a full blown catastrophe but whenever they speak out the pro-government media labels them as agents of gas brought. a usually and different camera cools to

extract more gas from the rocks and so the underground system which provides fresh drinking water is completely destroyed this water is a strategic ecological resource and when one spoil it the area becomes practically non-viable. even in the most optimistic scenario ukraine may cedes own shale gas filling its pipes only in a decade from now a college's insist they're not against shale gas and principle just at the potential environmental impact from its extraction needs to be researched and assessed before drilling begins they have already sent a letter to the president the question is whether those at the top will be willing to listen. reporting from kiev in ukraine. more international news now and the head of the syrian opposition in exile says he wants peace talks with the assad government but at the office comes to its search engine months in the release of one hundred sixty thousand prisoners in the damascus or says it would agree to sit down for talks but without any preconditions the

opposition wants to be gay shaping the poncho present us under which he battled into has so far the future to consider it's also idea if the al-qaeda linked on to rebel groups in syria would support a ceasefire is comes as a top u.s. military officer says he supports arming the insurgents to bring the pasta and to the conflict. the authorities have held there for as a reconsiders read talks with the opposition in baffling both sides us as they're ready to continue dialogue to top to stop anti regime protests which have lost it for two years and claimed up to eighty lives pro reform campaigners are calling on the government to deal with police brutality and to pull seemed to discrimination the sunni monarchy claims it's implemented some of the reforms yet activists say it's too much power concentrated in the hands of the state. shortly on r.t.

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it's one person one. it's one euro one fault. hello and welcome to cross talk we're all things are considered i'm peter lavelle a new scramble for africa cloaked under the guise of fighting terrorism and in support of noble western values africa is again in play is this continent at the

center of a vast natural resource grab why is the u.s. deploying troops in thirty four african countries and how does the new actually china add to this mix. to cross the rio neill colonialization of africa i'm joined by michael amoa in london he is an expert on africa at the london school of economics also in london we have adel darwish he is the political editor of the middle east magazine group and in paris we cross to emmanuel he is the president of institute for perspective security studies in europe all right gentlemen cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want michael if i could go to you. first i mean if you read western media it's the worst fighting terrorism jihadism in africa is that the worst problem africa has right now. it's definitely one of the key problems africa is grappling with at the moment

particularly to do with. mali and the fact that the whole of north of mali had until recently been occupied by terrorist jihadist islamist groups which basically had serious potential for destabilizing the whole sahara and region and of course the state of mali michael what does that justify interventions military interventions you think. it becomes a problem for the international community and our smiley the state of mali is unable to do with it obviously there has to be international support and that can sometimes be in foreign intervention depending on the scenario at stake i mean in the case of mali at the ninth of january the international community had to really give it out and had postponed every action till september two thousand and thirteen but then the the jihadists decided to make an incursion and were heading

towards but michael on the ninth of january when france decided that they were going to intervene on the tenth of january to stalk the creation and the violence towards but marco so actually the jihadist attempt to go to burma or call is more or less a blessing in disguise because if they hadn't done that the whole war that given up on mali and had left to its fate until september twenty third take a might like to be a blessing and a spark disguised as going about adel where do you come you know this if development issues of terrorism go. to. a geographic and historic perspective. as we. understand jihadists the threats to establishing bases in the whole of assad the region which actually extends from mali on the sub-saharan africa or the way to somalia in every single case it

was you had this who actually started the fact it was thought that terrorism was thought that the challenge the legitimacy of governments that. when the us intervention even if you go back to nine eleven and that could new york which triggered the afghanistan war it was al qaida that. it was al qaida. chips in aid in the am and it was you had this who actually started. the stability in somalia which led to piracy so what some people would call intervention came as a result of jihadist terrorist attacks nor the other way around ok you wouldn't say mali was an example of that though would you. well mally malley was a classic example like afghanistan somalia and yemen where you have if you

have nic problem in. a spree and the central government did not respond you have a very large vast space with with sort of weak asunta loss already and then you have a military coup already admitted to be in mali was you know i just it's. it seems clotted that coup and that is in. the end so in order to sort of learn from the listen again and again this down in somalia and so on you have to rush to fill that vacuum up fortunately the only sort of reasonable theory and. with democratic accountability that had bases in the region with the french and. most notable french by the by that they drove eight hundred ma is the perfectly i mean the issue is which is

a different issue anyway not to leave them when they're on the whole african sort of communities have to alright well that you mention france it's going to emanuel in paris ok go ahead emmanuel in paris react to what you just heard well i would have come from to compliment to the point of you stating what you mention saying that is terrorism is judges the major negative effect affecting the. african population let's have in mind that what is going on sale is along jewing instability and the judges are there because the. into beginning the weakening of a certain number of states that's the first issue the second issue is saying that africa is nine hundred million inhabitants and that's ahead gaza's only one hundred fifty million inhabitants so what is happening now is hell and it's dreadful of course and i'm grateful that france has been capable of intervening is

a more wider problem it's a problem of the weakening of the states and the people who are replacing what normally should be the legit to miti of a state the legitimacy of an army and the legitimate stakeholders for the major issue that is facing africa is weakening of state institution that's one side second of all the lack of. and african solidarity which is also something that must be. put into interests and put in debate concerning the million and the syrian crisis and the third parts more than judaism it's the link between the judges i'm big criminality and the drug smuggling agenda which is huge in this part of africa but can also be. located in other parts that let me let me i don't finish the let me go to michael i mean why are these countries weak in the first place and you think military interventions are a good idea. well in this country's weak festival because it's

a former colony of france and you haven't kept iraq together since independence. it's a bit of a pep plexi to you that are these cuts. are trying to say that france france is interested in states. or democrats for that matter if we look across africa apart from uganda which is an unlawful order and equatorial guinea which is loose a phone if you find any state in africa where the head of state has been there for a very long time and where the maximum limits of the presidency has been exceeded constitutionally you know road always francophone and we're talking about congo brazzaville come a room booking office so chad. tunisia until recently got on to recently jail until recently until recently all nine cases are francophone and the reason that happens

because all these states have military pacts with france where bar france has special forces stationed in the capitals and the area is that if the head of state is in trouble let's see if there's a coup d'etat or france will jump to the aid of the person which actually means that they can rule with impunity they don't care about governance they don't care about they did to me ok ok did you meet your boy there emmanuel just. go to paris go ahead let's go to paris to jump on that specific specific point of view saying that france is you know in february two thousand and nine decided to. have a more transparent more. more. to really build to reshape its relation with a certain number of countries where military agreements i have to say that it is not one of the states where for outside the military it remit child was neither one

of the states or so we. very conscious on saying what my colleague has just said that special forces are here to intervene in case of a rebellion in case of domestic internal. misbehavior of militaries or rebels again france in this case in mali is intervening on behalf of a resolution united nation resolution twenty eighty five it is intervening on behalf of a follow up of african led mission i feel now and again it is only doing what others were willing to do but did not have the capability of doing as it was mentioned we do have bases in africa three bases one in when you have also it when in djibouti and when each other so that is that has to be taken in consideration one last bit have in mind that a many to many to wait when you took power in one thousand nine hundred one was very democratic and that those other examples were democracy in francophone states

is also a reality i would take the example of syria ok del go ahead jump in you want to jump in before go ahead. yes i was just going to say we should not really confuse. the reaction with the action or the cause. of the reaction to the cause so the had actually been a stable democracy there would be a need for the french to intervene if we cast our mind back twenty years ago and what happened in rwanda. which was actually a mega mega tragedy i mean do we really want to wait. until another tragedy like rwanda actually happened and then with well you know why didn't we intervene so actually ok michael i what we're hearing and hearing we're hearing you know this africans can't rule themselves claim sounds like to me go ahead no i'm not i'm not going to i'm asking michael now go here start cause and effect michael.

it's essentially you know. it would appear that france went in and that's all well and good because of the cover of a u.n. resolution but the underlying current really is that france intervene because of their special interests in mali and of course about the backlash of the growth of terrorism which will in the end effect france if it does not intervene so it's not necessarily i mean the great gentlemen i'm going to jump in here and we have to go to a short break and after that short broke we'll continue our discussion on africa stay with r.t. . this one. isn't .

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back to crosstalk where all things considered i'm peter a little to remind you we're talking about africa and the major powers.

ok i've got to go back to paris manual why does france have to be so involved in africa i thought colonialism was over well well it is actually well it doesn't look that way the way it looks like a neo colonial project head is that is that because we intervene when we were asked to do so it was the first time that we were doing that so i think it's a it's a rupture well you know you can say that sounds like it looks like moral hazard to me ok just call the french they'll take care of it. well just call the french because we are the only ones who have bases there it's base it's a it's broadly the the answer i would give to you is that we have force that are predisposed to intervene because we are present throughout the mission in

those we have a thousand four hundred soldiers now in charge and we are present in central africa again history is something you have to take into account and we are in a francophone area and most of these countries do have in mind that fifty percent of the currency of these countries is backed up by the. defense and the forces are is also something we have to take in consideration as a legacy of story but let me just if you. please a little please do please do respond to your question what is the interest that france is defending or the under agenda the secret agenda that france me have i would just have in mind that if that is the case then we should have intervened when there was a rebellion and there was a coup in two thousand and ten because obviously most of the french interest if there is that is to be summarized in the jail in the lead where we have rain your

extraction we have very few. mining gold or oil or or gas extraction in the italians do so in the northern western parts of manny but not the french ok adele lot of people would say it's an asset grab you know africa's the last great place to grab assets go ahead. well how i'm always sort of quiet and used by all these clear. neo colonialism and grabbing africa would be very interesting to see if any of those people who are are these columns which show me is spread sheets where for example the cost of french prisons in bases the cost of british intervention in libya and france.

how much that goes to the british taxpayer french taxpayer any taxpayer going purred with the money. the sources coming out from this country whether it's mineral knit exporting it imports taking out of that the local employment and tax collected by the governments of this country if actually someone comes up with this is a spreadsheet and show me that french presence or british intervention adele western powers are in actually pretty. good going to tell then are you convinced by also our country two things out of interest michael go ahead jump in. well i mean you have to ask yourself where was france post-independence mali where the central government in bamako had several agreements over the decades with the other words with the turks north and kept breaking these agreements to the extent that decided

that they wanted independence where was friends in the jail where the president had basically stayed for too long and exceeded their limits where was france and all these other cases it's quite clear that there's a pattern that france is only interested in its interests in the natural resources and doesn't care too much about good governance and then when it comes to the critical point france into vain is to look and appear as safe where the savior but there actually can do the whole process to the. to the situation that brought to trouble. a lot of saddam now at least at so many cases the us the office of what role has france been playing implicitly or explicitly see to bring this to us to this point ok manual in paris you want to respond to that. well it's an everlasting debate as a frenchman i'm always obliged to defend the french policy.